HAIL TO THE KING, BABY!
So rather than release a new game, or outsource a 3rd person Duke Nukem game to someone else, as happened on PlayStation and N64, 3D Realms have instead just stuck 1996′s Duke Nukem 3D onto XBLA
So Duke Nukem 3D is exactly the same game from back then. Except its got 8 Duke co-op, MP over Live and a rewind feature. Considering the difficulty levels in the game are pretty high that’s a bonus and a half. Some people say the vita Chambers in Bioshock made it too easy. To them I say, “your mother is a whore.”
So Duke’s witticisms may seem old hat now, as well as pandering to the then target audiences more base instincts, but this game still has it with clever level design that made you explore, think and try new stuff. It also begs the question: “What the fuck have 3D Realms been up to for the last 11 or so years?”
How many engines does it take to build a Duke Nukem game? The Answer, apparently is thirty-nine. In the time since Duke Nukem Forever was announced we have already laughed at how long Daikatana, Spore, Too Human, Prey and Team Fortress 2 took to come out. There have been three entire generations of consoles in the meantime. PC has gone from being at the vanguard of gaming to being the ugly stepsister you take out of the cage and slap a dress on at Xmas time – the dress being so you don’t eat the wrong turkey when you’re drunk.
Duke Forever, the sequel to Duke Nukem 3D was begun in 1997.
We’ve had wars, 4 Olympic games (which means 4 crappy Olympic games games) and the Olsen Twins became legal and suddenly everyone didn’t care. In 1997, The Simpsons was good. In 1997, the internet was slow and Amazon was a river, a jungle and a compliment to a hot chick. In 1997, Kristen Bell was in elementary school. In 1997, Google was just a big number. In 1997 Paris Hilton was an expensive hotel with whores in the lobby (as opposed to an expensive whore who owned Hotels). In 1997, nerds in South Korea still attempted to get dates. And since development on DNF was started, I have gotten to 55% of a PS3 firmware update downloaded
We’ve come along way in that time. How about you guys at 3D Realms?
